Paper box



(No Model.)

lO. H. HICKS.

PAPER BOX.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OLIVER H. HICKS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE J. IV. SEFTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF INDIANA.

PAPER BOX.

SPEOIFICATIONformng part of Letters lPatent No. 458,533, dated August 25, 1891.

Application lecl April 28, 1891. Serial No. 390,742. (No model.)

.To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OLIVER H. HICKS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvementin the class of boxesvor receptacles more particularly the kind formed of a stiff variety of paper, commonly Manilaj and having a hinged cover and a bail for the handle, formed of non-exible material in the sense Vof the non-flexibility of wire and in contradistinction to a fabric, such as tape, which would not answer my purpose.

The object of my improvement is to secure an elastic band to the hinged cover of a paper box having a handle in the form of a stin pivotal bail adapted to extend over the cover when used as the carrying means, so that the bail may pass between its ends through the band when the latteris not passed around the box to hold the cover down, whereby when the cover is raised and the bail turned down to extend along a side of the box the band extends down from the bail upward along the rear side of the box to the raised cover and holds the latter open.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a broken perspective view of a paper box of the class referred to provided with my im- .v provernent and showing an elastic band fastcned to the cover and passed around the box to hold the cover down in its closing position. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same, showing the hinged lid raised and held in that position by the bail, turned to extend along the rear side of the box and through the-elastic band, then connecting the cover .with the bail.

A is a box of any suitablel construction, formed of paper, my improvement'being esA pecially designed for use with the aforesaid class of paper boxes, though it is not necessarily limited to employment with the boxes composed of that particular material.

B is a cover or lid hinged to one side of the mouth of the box.

C is a wire bail pivotally connected at its 5a ends with opposite sides of the box to adapt it to be turned for affording the carrying medium to extend over the lid and thence out of the way to extend over a side (or even the base) of the box.

D is an endless, or practically endless, elas tic band. It is fastened, essentially, to the cover B, and I employ as the fastening medium a staple r or -analogous means driven over the band through the cover and serving 6o in the construction of cover illustrated the double purpose of fastening the band and securing the opposite ends of the flaps q q, folded together to form the under thickness of the paper cover B. -As will be seen, when the lid B is down the band D may be readily stretched and passed over it about the box,

as shown in Fig. l, thereby fastening the lid in its closing position. WVhen the band is slipped off the box, being fastened to the lid, 7o it must obviously embrace the bail, so that when the lid is raised, requiring to that end previous turning of the bail out of the way, and preferably to extend along the rear side of the box, or side at which the cover B is hinged, the bail and band will assume the relative positions illustrated in Fig. 2, wherein they tend to hold the cover in its raised position, the friction of the bail on its pivots being sufficient to resist any ordinary 8o tendency in the cover to fall toward its closing position, though if not the bail is then in convenient position to be retained by the hand, in which the box may be held at or near its base for .filling it to prevent impediment from the lid in the operation.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is*

l. In combination with a box having a hinged lid and a pivotal bail, an endless elas- 9o tic band fastened to the lid to extend thence transversely about the bail and adapted to be stretched about the box and cover when the cover is down, the band and bail forming co operating means for holding the cover when the endless band when the latteris not passed raised,- substantally as described. around the box, substantially' as and for the 1o 4 2. In Combination, a box A, provided with purpose set forth. a hnofed lid B havinor flaps q foldedon one surfae, an endless elstic band D, secured to OLIVER H HICKS' the lid by means serving also to fasten the In presence of flaps in place, and a bail C, pivotally con- J. W. DYRENFORTH, neoted with the box and extending through M. J. FROST. 

